Sentences with phrase «of reimbursable»

With the advent of reimbursable billing codes for screening, including Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes 96110 and 99420, some practices are beginning to see some financial payment for the addition of screening programs.

That's a problem with no one right answer, but I would use the Travelocity card if I booked a lot of reimbursable business flights, and earn a $ 400 rebate for every $ 6,667 I spent on airfare.

This may have the opposite effect since one study found that increasing competitive food sales reduced the sale of reimbursable meals and had a negative effect on overall food service finances.

In 2013 the USDA proposed new regulations meant to govern all foods and beverages sold in schools during the school day, and to make their nutritional content consistent with that required of foods served as part of reimbursable school meals.

The Act includes funding to support Farm to School programs: schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program will receive an extra 5 cents per day when at least one component of a reimbursable breakfast or lunch contains a meal component made entirely of unprocessed, locally - grown foods and meets the nutrition and access requirements of the Healthy Schools Act.

«If the federal government let us offer water as part of a reimbursable meal, then the children, many of them, instead of taking a milk or juice, would take a water.»

(The particulars of reimbursable breakfast aside, it's hard to argue with that young man's logic — Belgian waffles and whipped cream are pretty wonderful.)

Now, the salad bar is included as part of all reimbursable meals, and it serves as a fully reimbursable meal due to lean proteins and whole grain crackers being available on the salad bar.

If there is one action that will support long - term sustainability for salad bars as a regular part of your reimbursable meal — it is training and tracking.

To qualify for a Salad Bars to Schools grant, you must offer the salad bar as part of the reimbursable meal served in your district.

Sufficient funding from reimbursements, enough to cover the full cost of meal programs, would also mean that schools would no longer have to rely on a la carte sales to generate revenue to underwrite the cost of reimbursable meals, even absent UF.

A few hours later, SNA put out a press release praising the appropriators but calling on the Agriculture Department to go further by not implementing any additional reductions in salt, not requiring 100 percent whole - wheat items, getting rid of the requirement for fruit and vegetable servings at every meal, and allowing any food item permitted to be served as part of a reimbursable meal to be sold at any time in vending machines.

In 2013 the USDA proposed new regulations meant to govern all foods and beverages sold in schools during the school day, and to make their nutritional content consistent with that required of foods served as part of reimbursable school meals.

They can be served during breakfast, lunch or supper services as part of the reimbursable or a la carte options.

This may have the opposite effect since one study found that increasing competitive food sales reduced the sale of reimbursable meals and had a negative effect on overall food service finances.

However, as was expected, the interim final rule states that an item sold on a cafeteria snack bar line is exempt from all of the nutrition standards we've been discussing above, so long as those foods are «sold on the day that they are offered as part of a reimbursable meal, or sold on the following school day.»

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service Child Nutrition Programs will host a FREE webinar on nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools outside of a reimbursable meal, known as the «Smart Snacks in Schools» standards.

So whatever we would serve in our breakfast lines in the cafeteria that day are also packaged and served out of the reimbursable meal vending machines.

Is your district ready to implement salad bars as part of your reimbursable meal program?

Competitive foods include items served in the cafeteria that are not part of a reimbursable meal (such as individual food items or meals that do not meet the nutritional requirements for the federal programs), individual food items in vending machines, and meals served to adults.

As part of the reimbursable meal, a selection from the salad bar averages at or less than the cost of a hot vegetable with a fruit cup side.

OK, so you've assessed your meal program and are confident that your school district can support salad bars, and that your menu plan includes offering salad bars daily as part of your reimbursable meal program.

School districts all across America are committed to salad bar use as a part of their reimbursable meal.

To meet nutritional goals of the reimbursable program, students are required to take two salad bar items.

To qualify for a Salad Bars to Schools grant, you must offer the salad bar as part of the reimbursable meal served in your district.

School districts all across America are committed to salad bar use as a part of their reimbursable meal.

As part of the reimbursable meal, a selection from the salad bar averages at or less than the cost of a hot vegetable with a fruit cup side.

Is your district ready to implement salad bars as part of your reimbursable meal program?

Not exact matches

A 45 - minute session costs an insurance - reimbursable $ 80 (compared with upwards of $ 200 in major Canadian cities) and is conducted via encrypted video on TranQool's website — no app download necessary.

Until now, there was no reimbursable way for pre-diabetic patients to receive care, said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada Health, the nation's largest federally recognized provider of diabetes prevention programs in the U.S. Medicare has always reimbursed providers to screen for diabetes and to treat those who have the disease, but there wasn't a way for providers to be reimbursed to stop that progression all together.

Interesting fact: In response to the USDA's subsidized school lunch program during the Reagan administration, ketchup was counted as one of the two servings of fruit or vegetables for a reimbursable lunch.

Because breakfast is not an «offer vs. serve» meal (i.e., students must take all parts of the meal for it to be reimbursable by the federal government), there's a huge amount of waste, and one of the most valuable aspects of Lisa's blog has been her photos of the untouched food routinely discarded by the students from the breakfast — tables full of sealed milk and juice cartons, uneaten whole fruit and unopened packaged foods all headed for the trash (see, e.g., here and here).

The average reported cost of providing a reimbursable lunch was $ 2.28 during school year 2005 - 2006.

The authors observed: «A major finding of [the 1994 study] was that school food authorities... subsidize the cost of nonreimbursable meals with overall excess revenue generated from all reimbursable meals.

[22] Neither of these figures includes the 17.25 cents worth of federal commodities provided for each reimbursable lunch.

The federal reimbursement for free meals is one measure of how much is intended to be spent on producing a reimbursable meal.

-LSB-...] as part of the federally reimbursable school meal.

That the stupid cookie or candy included, or the extra bag of cheetos is going to make them banshees in the classroom where your and my child are trying to focus... I would say that even in most districts that the nutritional value on a reimbursable tray is probably better than the brown bag that is being brought to school by most!

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

The school meal is counted as reimbursable if students pick at least three of those components.

I work in a high school where we (mostly) reheat prepackaged CRAP (pizza, burritos, hamburgers, etc. & one reimbursable meal on our menu is a bag of «whole - grain» chips with nacho cheese sauce!!)

The sale of a la carte (competitive) foods and beverages to students instead of / in addition to the reimbursable meal.

What the USDA calculates as the cost of providing lunch — the amount it gives schools to pay for a fully - reimbursable meal — is adjusted upward annually with the rate of inflation.

The competition showcases the hard work and creativity of Middle School teams across the district as they are challenged to plan a reimbursable lunch menu that includes the appropriate meal components (meat / meat alternate, grain, milk, fruit and vegetable), follows the USDA National School Lunch guidelines, and costs no more than $ 1.20 for the entire meal.

Ultimately, the issue of a la carte touches on the larger philosophical question of how we want to feed the children in our district, * both in the a la carte line and in the reimbursable meal line.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 increased the nutritional quality of school meals, and included provisions to raise the nutritional standards of a la carte food items, snacks, and beverages sold to students separately from complete (reimbursable) school breakfasts and lunches.

Competitive foods are anything that is not part of a complete «reimbursable» school meal.

There are lots of misunderstandings about Ala Carte Lines and Reimbursable Meal Lines.

Participating districts reported higher breakfast and lunch participation and were significantly more likely to report that the federal reimbursement rate was sufficient to cover the cost of producing a reimbursable meal.

First of all the Reimbursable Meal lines are for all students, not just Free or Reduced eligible students.